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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are


IF by the necessary use of things,
The ornaments wee measure of our honour,
And not by that, which fancy doth suggest us:
Wee will not need those wares, the Marchant brings
From forraine Countries: and withall exoner
Our minds of what might otherwise molest us.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth
  4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune
  5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile


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